Press Kit
Last updated July 14, 2026
Plai: Village Tale is a cozy match-3 village builder set in 1476 Moldova — match tiles to harvest and mine, then build, craft and grow a living village. Free on Google Play. Everything on this page may be used freely in articles, videos and streams.
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Factsheet
Description
Short
Plai: Village Tale is a cozy match-3 village builder set in 1476 Moldova. Match tiles to harvest crops and mine ore, then build, craft and grow a living village that keeps working while you're away.
Long
It is the year 1476, somewhere in the Moldovan countryside. A handful of settlers lay down their burdens in a clearing by a quick, clear stream — and the rest is up to you. Plai: Village Tale pairs a connect-chain match-3 puzzle with a living village economy: every wheat sheaf, water drop and lump of ore you match on the farm and mine boards flows home into storage, construction and crafting.
The village is a real economy, not a backdrop. Thirteen storybook buildings each upgrade through three tiers, workers are assigned by hand, storage fills in real time, and production keeps running for up to eight hours while the player is away. Between puzzle runs there are tools to forge and artisan recipes to craft, thirty-plus storybook events starring merchants, betting roosters and confrontational geese, daily bounties and streaks, a weekly harvest festival, and a prestige system that resets the village into a New Age with permanent bonuses.
The whole game is a love letter to Moldova: the UI is woven from covor carpet embroidery, grapevines and wheat; villages carry real Moldovan names; and the village news marquee gossips like a crowd at the well. Built solo in Godot 4, fully localized in four languages, playable offline, and free — with nothing sold but optional rewarded ads.
Features
- Two connect-chain match-3 modes — lush farm boards and dark treasure mines — with golden tiles, wildcards, lightning chains, and creeping weeds and rocks to clear
- A living village economy: 13 buildings × 3 upgrade tiers, manual worker assignment, per-building storage, and up to 8 hours of offline production
- 13 puzzle tools to forge and 11 artisan recipes to craft at the village smithy
- 30+ storybook village events with trades, choices and gambles
- Daily bounties, a 7-day reward streak, daily gifts and supply crates
- A weekly village festival — the Harvest Hram — with milestone rewards
- Prestige system: raise the Manor to its peak and begin a New Age with permanent stars
- 22 achievements, from first harvest to legendary 10-tile chains
- Fully localized in English, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian
- Free and offline-friendly: no account, no purchases — optional rewarded ads only
History
Plai began as a tiny browser prototype and was rebuilt from the ground up in Godot 4 by a single developer. The Moldovan identity came first — covor geometry, whitewashed cottages under thatch, grapevine pridvors — and the systems grew around it until the village felt inhabited: workers with opinions, festivals with themes, gossip with named villagers. The game launched on Google Play on July 13, 2026.
Videos
Screenshots
Clean gameplay captures, no marketing text. Click any image for the full-resolution PNG (778×1688).
Promo art
Captioned store-style shots (1080×1920 PNG) — click for full resolution.
Key art & logo
Videos, streams & monetization
You are welcome to publish and monetize videos, streams, screenshots and articles featuring Plai: Village Tale — no permission needed. A link back to plaivillage.com is appreciated. For interviews, review keys on future platforms, or anything not in this kit, write to dev.jdanov@gmail.com.
Credits
- Victor Jdanov — design, code, art direction
- Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 3.0
- Built with Godot Engine · Godot logo by Andrea Calabró, CC BY 4.0